Old Dude,

Well, thank you for the way too nice words. -------- But please know, good sir--- It is not just a matter of me picking up my guitar once again. It wasn't something I purposely put down. I had to do it -- and it was like dying.
My hands are thoroughly numb and I have no feeling in them to make chords or anything. This started in the early 1980s and I managed to keep on playing until '97. The nineties were a decade of f.....g spinal surgeries for my symptoms before Mayo Clinic saw I'd had MS--probably all along.

O.D.--I have a 2-CD bootleg of western stuff you'd enjoy of mine. It's yours if ya want it.